More Stitching Pictures!

As you can tell, I'm still a novice at this blogging thing........how to post pictures and where to put my writing. Hopefully it will all come sometime, and I hope you will bear with me.

I attempted two new finishes this holiday season. The bell design is by Stacy Nash from last year's C-mas book, A Simply Early Christmas. I stitched this for a dear friend and I'm quite pleased with the result. She stitched the framed piece for me, isn't it lovely?

The JBW tree was for my stitch group exchange. I hadn't tried making a flat ornament before, but found it wasn't too difficult. I'm going to use it on a couple more ornament finishings this week, but I won't show them until after Christmas as they are gifts. The last picture is the stitch group ornament I received. It's very sweet and I love the braided hanger!

Holiday Stitching

I've been stitching some holiday pieces, some for me and some for gifts. These two pieces were out of my stash. The tuck is a SanMan kit and was fun to stitch. A quick project and turned out cute. The second one was a UFO, can you believe? Apparently I tucked it away in the JCS magazine with very little to finish. It's by Twisted Threads and from the 2002 issue.
My next post will have pics of exchange pieces. I tried a different shape and a flat ornament finish. I was quite happy with how they both turned out!

Yes, I'm still here!

HI, Dear Readers!
Yes, I'm still here, I hope I haven't lost anyone because I haven't been updating.
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We had a great time with our family at our oldest DD's house. There were 12 of us there and we had lots and lots of delicious food to eat!

Now that that holidays are upon us, it seems like time is fast forwarding at a very fast pace.
I have several stitching finishes to post so will get to that in my next post.

My DH bought a new laptop computer for me and I'm enjoying it immensely. However, my pictures are on the old laptop so I need to get on it to add them. One of these days I will figure out how to store pictures on the new one!

Hope everyone is nearly finished with their shopping and able to enjoy upcoming holiday events.

We had a lovely time yesterday at our DGD's Addie and Kelsey's church Christmas program.

That certainly got us in the holiday spirit, was such fun to see the little ones dressed in costumes and singing with such gusto!

Our Travel Trailer!

Finally I'm getting pictures posted of our wonderful trailer! Here's also a few of the inside, I don't want to bore anyone, but we got a bit picture happy when we had it out and snapped alot of photos!

Our maiden voyage was to Basswood Resort by Platte City, Mo. We stayed 2 nights and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. The only drawback was it wasn't far from KCI and planes coming in for a landing can be pretty noisy!

We are taking it to Topeka Friday after Thanksgiving and staying in an RV park.
Kansas City had rain this week so I was relieved to find out yesterday that the trailer didn't leak and all was well with it. Just being in it made me anxious to take it out again! We are adding more and more supplies to it and making it more like home.

Doesn't WDH look relaxed?

Hope you all are having a relaxing weekend too! :-)

Pumpkin Smash at the Kansas City Zoo

Elizabeth spent the weekend with us recently and Sat we took in the Pumpkin Smash at the zoo.

Not only was it a special event, but it was free admittance so there was quite a crowd. We enjoyed seeing the animals eating and playing with the pumpkins. The elephants each got a pumpkin and were carrying them around with their trunks. One elephant dropped his and another one picked it up, walked over to the one who dropped it, and then stood there and ate it!

Guess they weren't taught to share!

Granddaughters!

My WDH and I are blessed to have 5 grandchildren, of which 3 are girls. They are Addie ( Addison Lee), Elizabeth Anne, and Kelsey Grace. The girls love to play together!

Addie is 7, almost 8 and in the 2nd grade. I was fortunate to take care of her 3 days/wk from when she was a tiny baby until she started school. We had her recently when she was out of school for conferences and she made some leaf projects. She's a Brownie, does gymnastics and likes to play soccer.

Elizabeth is 7 and also in 2nd grade. She has gorgeous curly hair and is the middle child with an older and younger brother. She takes dance lessons and loves all animals.

Kelsey is 5 and goes to pre-K. I've also taken care of her several days/wk since she was a baby. She loves Fancy Nancy, also takes dance lessons, plays soccer and loves to swing! Kelsey was playing in the leaf piles in our yard last wk.........don't her legs look really long???

Last Week was BUSY!

It seems like since WDH retired in Oct we have been on an endless merry-go-round! Always something to do or somewhere to go. I keep hoping for a "normal" week, but realistically I don't think that it will ever happen!

Last Tues we picked up my framing from the shop in Topeka. LOVE this framing shop! They do wonderful work and are very reasonable. Here's pictures of the 3 pieces I had framed. I love them all!

Last week we also officially became RVers!!! We'd been looking at travel trailers for several wks, starting with 18 ft ones and ending our search with our 30 ft one! I have to backpedal here a bit as we had originally wanted to be able to use our truck to pull the trailer. It unfortunately wasn't big enough to pull the 30 ft trailer so we looked at getting a different truck! Fortunately Carmax had a very nice '07 Toyota Tundra! It's white, has low mileage, has heated leather seats and rides like a dream! We decided that we couldn't pass it up, but were waiting till Spring to get the trailer! But, with another walk through of it we were hopelessly in love with it, and decided not to wait! There's several more camping weekends yet this fall so we'll have it out this coming weekend and can't wait! We have a 2 hr orientation to attend, and then we'll load it and hit the road! I'll try to get some pics up after our maiden voyage!

Wishing everyone a great week,

Sharyn :-)